Previous ed.: Linear algebra. New York : Wiley, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Peter D. Lax
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Fundamentals -- Duality -- Linear mappings -- Matrices -- Determinant and trace -- Spectral theory -- Euclidean structure -- Spectral theory of self-adjoint mappings -- Calculus of vector- and matrix-valued functions -- Matrix inequalities -- Kinematics and dynamics -- Convexity -- The duality theorem -- Normed linear spaces -- Linear mappings between normed linear spaces -- Positive matrices -- How to solve systems of linear equations -- How to calculate the eigenvalues of self-adjoint matrices -- Solutions